Posted on 08/22/2006 7:00:27 AM PDT by VRWCmember
"If you've got a real hooligan for a 16-year-old who just got a new 2006 Mustang ... perhaps you want to track him live," Wilcher said.In my humble opinion, If you've got a "real hooligan" for a 16-year-old, and you give that hooligan a new 2006 Mustang ... then perhaps your 16 y/o hooligan has IDIOTS for parents.
Cool kids are now going to befriend nerds who will hold their cell phones for them at the local library.
"Yeah Mom, see I was at the library the whole time."
And when they are adults they can switch roles. The nerd can drop off his phone with the cool kid whose now the janitor at the library while the nerd cheats with the adriana lima lookalike.
Exactly! I never considered us to be "helicopter parents" but we did do a lot of supervising and protecting. She turned out to be a very nice lady who has a great deal of self confidence and decency. There were no cell phones during those years.
This device is for careless parents who don't have the time to devote to the kids. Direct parent involvement is the answer, not some electronic device.
Adriana Lima Pictures?
I would agree with that except that most kids have their cell phones stuck to their ears and couldn't walk away from them for even a few minutes.
Perhaps it would help locate family members in Walmart.
LOL! That is actually a great idea!
I think there might be a balance of direct parental involvement AND using available tools to keep tabs on them.
Dress it up any way you want honey. As long your feet are under my table, it's my rules. You want your rules, move out and pay your own freight.
My CDMA cellphone is unnerving. When I pass a time zone marker on the road, the time switches within 50 feet of the sign. I pulled over and paced it off, the GPS chip in the phone is that accurate.
Don't know how close a GSM phone would be, it triangulates among three reachable towers. Sprint is CDMA. Nextel is IDEN, don't know if it's tower or handset based.
I have a boy who is about to turn 10. No WAY is he mature enough to keep track of a $200 cell phone.
What say the FR masses? What is a good age to consider a cell phone for the kiddies?
Or as they used to be called - "responsible parents who care about their children"...
Kids love their cell phones. They use them to text-message, play games, take pictures, chat with their friends, etc. The aren't likely to leave them with a nerd while they go party. Also, the parent has a little bit of control if they are willing to use it by leveraging the cell phone and taking it away if necessary, and then simply saying "you don't go anywhere, drive a car, etc. until you can earn the privilege of having the cell phone again". But many "non-helicopter" parents are too lazy to do something like that.
Pinging some of my fellow helicopter parents
16 at the earliest.
my daughter had one at age 9. not a $200 one, but a virgin mobile pay as you go one. i have three kids in 3 different schools and if i am caught in traffic getting from one to the other, she needs to know i am on my way. she doesn't use it for talking to friends, it is a link to mom and dad.
No, there's a difference.
Responsible parents teach their children to be self-sufficient in small ways, preparing them for adulthood.
Helicopter parents exclude all responsibility and accountability from their children, so the little darlings can't cope with anything - a broken nail, a flat tire, a C in sociology.
BTTT!!
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